The Alhambra garden
Terraces and fountains facing the palaces — the crowded lookout's serenity.
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Granada's Grand Mosque is a standing historical event: the first congregational mosque built in the city since its fall in 1492 — opened in 2003 after two decades' endeavour, in the Albaicín's heart steps from the San Nicolás lookout, returning the adhan to upper Andalusia's quarters after five centuries of silence. The architecture is refined neo-Andalusi: a slender white minaret in the manner of the Albaicín's towers, a quietly ornamented prayer hall, and its jewel the garden: terraces and fountains facing the Alhambra directly — the famous lookout's very view without its crowds, open to all visitors in the place's courtesy. For our readers it is a station of the heart: prayer in Granada's Albaicín with the Alhambra before you — and its cultural centre receives questions of history and present with open welcome.
Terraces and fountains facing the palaces — the crowded lookout's serenity.
Renewed Albaicín slenderness stitching the skyline.
Five centuries' silence broken in 2003.
Plaza San Nicolás, 18010 Granada
Mirador de San NicolásThe San Nicolás lookout is "the world's most beautiful sunset" by a testimony at1 minute walk4.8
Sacromonte Caves MuseumSacromonte is the legendary gitano mountain: here the Roma dug their cave homes 1 minute walk4.6
Archaeological Museum of GranadaGranada's provincial archaeology museum, in the Casa de Castril, a Renaissance h3 minutes walk4.4
Monasterio de la ConcepciónAn early sixteenth-century Franciscan convent in central Granada, holding a smal3 minutes walk4.6
El BañueloEl Bañuelo in Granada is among the oldest surviving Arab baths in Spain, dating 4 minutes walk4.1Garden and cultural centre welcome everyone by day — the view alone rewarding. The prayer hall is for worshippers, and the centre answers questions on Islam and al-Andalus gladly — the place was built as a bridge.